October 2011
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Who will survive?
The fog is starting to clear and teams are separating themselves. Three undefeated teams fell on Saturday and they were arguably all pretenders. Michigan, Illinois, and Georgia Tech had all put in sub-par performances in previous weeks and they payed for it. So who’s left?
LSU
Alabama
Oklahoma
Stanford
Oklahoma St
Wisconsin
Boise St
Clemson
Houston
Kansas State
Who will survive?...
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Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Happiness May Be...
This is the third and final part of Dan’s essay on pay for play. You can check out the earlier entries for part 1 and part 2.
I refused to write this article sober. In ”I’m Not Telling The Pistol Team Their Sport Is Useless”, I used the words football players instead of “Everyone kills People” Pryor, “Sexual Ball’ah” Bush, “I’m...
September 2011
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Conference Power Rankings
Trying to make sense of the conferences as we know… for today at least. After 4 weeks here is where the conferences stand Against the BCS: ACC (5-7) Big East (4-7) Big 10 (6-5) Big 12 (6-2) SEC (5-2) Pac 12 (4-7) Overall against FBS: ACC (12-10) Big East (13-9) Big 10 (25-11) Big 12 (20-2) Pac 12 (12-10) SEC (19-4) At this point I would rank the conferences like so: 1) Big 12 2) SEC...
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Winners and Losers for Week 4
The week’s top winners and losers, picking the six teams that collectively had the best and worst Saturdays. Winners: Oklahoma State: One half of nearly flawless football kept Ok State in the winner’s column and out of the loser’s. How often can your star player fumble a touchdown out of the endzone and you still win the game? Oh yeah, that was playing on the road against a top 10 conference...
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Top 25 for Week 4
Still pondering the winners and losers this week but please enjoy the BMB Top 25 for now. Positions 11-25 are getting harder to fill out as the conference schedule kicks off for most teams. It should get easier with each week though.
LSU
Alabama
Oklahoma
Boise St
Oklahoma St
Wisconsin
Stanford
Nebraska
Oregon
Florida
South Carolina
Clemson
Virginia Tech
Texas A&M
Baylor
South...
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I'm Not Telling The Pistol Team Their Sport Is...
This is Part 2 of Dan’s thoughts on pay for play. Read Part 1 here.
In “Fiscal Responsibility - Not Just For AIG”, I used the term “student athletes” instead of football and basketball players. In this post, I’m only talking about those two sport as those are the only two revenue generating sports found at the collegiate level (with a few exceptions here and...
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ACC re-alignment and you
Looks like someone got my letter. Over the weekend Commish Swofford made the first big move in the conference re-alignment wars. The ACC added Syracuse and Pitt. As an ACC fan, I’m not really that happy with expansion in general and I’m definitely not happy with having Pitt and Syracuse in the conference (Miami and BC are bad enough, did we really need more Big East dead weight?), but I think...
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Dear Notre Dame, You are not special
NOTRE DAME. YOU. ARE. NOT. SPECIAL. GET. OVER. IT.
For those of you who did not watch insane finish in the Michigan-Notre Dame game, you missed a doozy. Michigan entered the 4th quarter down 24-7 in a game marked by complete ineptitude from the Michigan defense and 18 penalties (9 each). They also entered the 4th quarter on 3rd and goal from the ND one yard line. Denard Robinson handed it off to...
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Top 25 and 3 Winners and Losers for Week 2
Top 25 (week 2)
LSU
Boise St
Alabama
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Florida St
Stanford
Nebraska
Oklahoma St
South Carolina
Arkansas
Oregon
Texas A&M
Ohio State
Mich State
Virginia Tech
Arizona St
West Va
Florida
Baylor
Auburn
Maryland
Northwestern
Miss State
Penn State
Not much changed from last week. Oregon is still the best 1 loss team in the country. Penn State and Miss...
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Fiscal Responsibility - Not Just For AIG
As a Buckeye Fan, the last 9 months have been rough and I’ve got plenty to say about that. Interestingly enough however, Ohio State was joined by a dozen other schools around the country for players allegedly receiving improper benefits. These allegations put the “pay-for-play” discussion into the spotlight for most of the off-season. I look at the “pay for play”...
thorbs asked: As a Cleveland Browns football fan, I don't understand college football.
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Danimal Award (Week 1)
According to ESPN, the top three Heisman candidates (updated 9/6) are Andy Luck, Kellen Moore, and Landry Jones. Here’s what I find most interesting about those rankings: we are one week into college football and those guys are considered the most outstanding players in the game. 1. Andrew Luck has a passer rating of 146.0, good enough for 41st in the country. 2. Kellen Moore has a...
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Week 1 Top 25 and Other Thoughts
Buzz Meets Brutus Top 25 (Week 1)
LSU
Boise St
Alabama
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Florida St
Stanford
Nebraska
South Carolina
Arkansas
Oklahoma St
Oregon
Texas A&M
Ohio State
Miss St
West Virginia
Mich St
Va Tech
Florida
Arizona St
Baylor
Penn St
Auburn
Maryland
Northwestern
The weather was terrible, the uniforms were atrocious… but dear God I missed you, College...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find Out What It Means To Me
In the past 3 seasons Oregon is 2-3 against ranked non-conference opponents beating Utah and Oklahoma State while losing to Boise State, Ohio State, and Auburn. In the past 3 seasons Boise State is 6-1 against ranked non-conference opponents beating Utah, Virginia Tech, Oregon State, TCU, and Oregon (twice!) while losing to TCU by 1 point. In that same period Boise State has played in 1 BCS...
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Dan hates the Big 12
Zach’s Open Letter to the ACC got me thinking about the Big 12 after he mentioned how much the ACC hates Texas. Like most people not from Texas, I hate Texas too! [ACC country hates Texas because Mack Brown used to coach UNC - Z] Here’s some interesting numbers on the Big 12 as the season kicks off. The Big 12 has 4 teams ranked in the preseason Top 10: Oklahoma @ #1, Texas A&M...
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An Open Letter to the ACC
Commissioner Swofford, As you no doubt have read, Miami is hosed. Sorry, allegedly hosed. Let’s be completely honest here and just agree that ACC expansion has not worked out exactly as everyone hoped. Let’s review: Boston College deliver the Boston TV market to the ACC. Boston TV market? I didn’t see anyone watching a BC game in Goodwill Hunting or The Town. Unless we add the Red Sox...
Back in the saddle
Football is back and soon BMB will be too…